Alachua woman arrested for stealing money that was supposed to pay for her mother’s nursing home
Staff report
ALACHUA, Fla. – Lisa Jo Ann McKee, 48, was arrested yesterday on a warrant for withdrawing money from her mother’s bank account for her personal expenses, leaving her mother with a $91,000 debt to her nursing home.
The Florida Department of Children and Families referred the case to the Alachua Police Department in November 2025 after the victim’s nursing home reported that it was no longer receiving payments from the victim’s bank account. As of December 2025, the victim reportedly owed the nursing home $91.342.28, and the nursing home had attempted to contact McKee but was unsuccessful.
The APD Detective reported that McKee shares a joint account with the victim for the purpose of receiving the victim’s monthly disability check. However, the detective reported that McKee used the funds in that account for personal expenses that included hotel stays, pet care, streaming platform memberships, Amazon purchases, automobile insurance, and meals in restaurants. McKee also allegedly transferred all the money from the victim’s account to her personal account on multiple occasions, and the detective reported that as of early December 2025, McKee had taken over $15,000 from the victim’s disability payments for her personal use.
A representative from the nursing home told the detective that McKee has not contacted or visited the victim “in years,” but McKee allegedly continues to use the victim’s disability payments for personal expenses while “willfully and knowingly refusing to use the funds to pay for the [victim’s] financial medical responsibility.”
McKee has been charged with theft of over $10,000 from a person over the age of 65 and exploitation of an elderly person with a loss of over $10,000. She completed deferred prosecution agreements on two misdemeanor cases in the 1990s but has had no criminal history since then. Judge James Colaw set bail at $125,000 in the arrest warrant.
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That’s about as low as you can get, won’t even go see your mom and you are stealing the money that was to pay for her care. Hope she sits in prison a long time.
Just awful. Special place in hell for her.
Bible says not to judge. I’m halfway guessing that she either hates her mother, has mental n psychological issues or is just a good for nothing human from what I can ascertain. Probably all the above. Either way just try not to judge people’s you know nothing about is all I’m saying
You are 100% correct
She is smoking hot
Gotta love a family who will eat its own. Elder abuse both physically and financially is becoming rampant. Some feel they are entitled to their parents wealth.
Sounds like the brother of a friend of mine. The brother moved his father’s homestead exemption to a 2nd home that the brother had purchased in Florida so he wouldn’t have to pay property taxes, (the brother lived in Georgia). He withdrew money from his dad’s account for his personal use, swapped his own accounts with his father’s equity investments, (his father’s were more valuable), used his father’s credit cards to buy tools and supplies for the renovation of the 2nd home he bought, took the insurance claim proceeds from one of his father’s properties and put it in his own personal account, and to top it all off — used his dad’s credit card AND changed beneficiaries on a life insurance policy AFTER his father passed away.
What made all this possible? The trust his father had for his son to do what was right. Other factors played a role as well: one was a “Junior”, the other a “Senior”, and, lastly, the father had started exhibiting signs of dementia. Perfect environment for a someone deep in debt to take advantage of an elderly, mentally incapacitated parent.